Predictive processing, Neurorepresentationalism and the trouble with Computational Functionalism
Kwangjun Lee, Cyriel M A Pennartz preprint
Taking phenomenal consciousness as explanandum, we first circumscribe it using five hallmarks. Fundamentally, conscious experience corresponds to generating a best-guess representation of what the sensory inputs the wakeful brain receives are about. This process can be computationally approached with predictive processing (PP): the brain constantly generates inferential, predictive...